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Cuban Parliament president highlights Félix Varela’s legacy

Havana, Nov 20 (Prensa Latina) National People's Power Assembly (Parliament) President Esteban Lazo paid tribute to Cuban patriot Félix Varela, whose 235th birthday is commemorated on Monday

On his X account, the parliamentary leader recalled that Félix Varela’s pro-independence thinking and his contribution to pedagogy and ethics became an important reference for generations of Cubans.

Varela, a thinker of enormous importance for the recognition of the independence of the Americas from the Spanish rule, was born in Havana on November 20, 1788.

In addition to being a patriot and reformer of philosophical studies in Cuba, Varela was a priest, teacher, writer, philosopher and politician with an major performance in the country’s intellectual, political and religious life during the first half of the 19th century.

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